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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:11 PM,  wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 04:49:59PM -0400, drew Roberts wrote:

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> > Does the software world need a better way to handle this reputation

> issue?

> > (The rest of the world in general as well perhaps?) Is there any way to

> build

> > a signed binary where this can be checked from within the binary itself?

> > Perhaps stick the signature at the end of the binary and have the signing

> > routine check all but the area that holds the signature? (Not well

> thought

> > out, just an off the cuff idea.)

>

> Nothing new is needed. Except maybe a more widespread awareness

> that if the free software world is turned into the Far West it's

> not going to last.

>

> Ciao,

>

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> FA

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> There are three of them, and Alleline.

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Is releasing changes to other peoples' software really the equivalent of

"the Far West"?
Isn't that the entire point of releasing something under the GPL instead of,

say, a shared source license?
If you don't like the work he did, by all means, disassociate yourself from

it, but please, don't say that you're not going to release any more software

just because someone released a change to a GPL program of yours.
Jeremy
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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:11 PM,  <fons@kokkinizita.net> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 04:49:59PM -0400, drew Roberts wr=

ote:
> Does the software world need a better way to handle this reputation is=

sue?

quoted text
> (The rest of the world in general as well perhaps?) Is there any way t=

o build

quoted text
> a signed binary where this can be checked from within the binary itsel=

f?

quoted text
> Perhaps stick the signature at the end of the binary and have the sign=

ing

quoted text
> routine check all but the area that holds the signature? (Not well tho=

ught

quoted text
> out, just an off the cuff idea.)

Nothing new is needed. Except maybe a more widespread awareness

that if the free software world is turned into the Far West it's

not going to last.
Ciao,
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FA
There are three of them, and Alleline.
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9; software really the equivalent of "the Far West"?
Isn't that the entire point of releasing something under the GPL instea=

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ay that you're not going to release any more software just because some=

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Jeremy
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